Sweetbreads on mushroom (morel) risotto. Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork.weetbreads on mushroom (morel) risotto. Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork.
White Russian (plural White Russians) ( 1 history) a White Guardist, a Russian who supported the tsar in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1917â1923), and afterward. (Russian history) ( 2 obsolete) A Belarusian person. 3  A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk.
Thus, white russia simply means the good part of Russia and this part of the country has been called that for at least 500 years. Though the above is the ancient historical consensus, there are divergent explanations.he âbelaâ stems from the common Slavic root for âwhiteâ, as has been discussed in the other answers. There were also historical regions called the âRedâ and the âBlackâ Rusâ (Ruthenia) on the territory of todays Belarus and Ukraine-- the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the middle ages.